"Insipid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sit quiet. But they come wearing shiny clothes, and mop and mow at me and expect me to answer their gibberings. Polite conversation always appears to me to be a wicked perversion of the blessed gift of speech, which, I take it, was given us to season our lives rather than to make them insipid. New friends are the worst in this respect. With old friends one is more at home; you give them something to eat or drink, or look at, or something—whatever they seem to want—and just turn round and go ...
— Certain Personal Matters • H. G. Wells
... Hence the insipid or vapid taste of newly boiled water, from which these gases are expelled: fish cannot live in water ...
— A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons • Fredrick Accum
... "Remember, my good friend, that I am unacquainted with your language, that I am too far advanced in years to acquire a knowledge of it, and that, to converse through the medium of an interpreter upon common occasions, especially with the Ladies, must appear so extremely awkward, insipid, and uncouth, that I can scarce ...
— The True George Washington [10th Ed.] • Paul Leicester Ford
... in point of temper any more than other men, but Lucy had never suffered from it before. She was frightened, but she did not give way. The colour went out of her cheeks, but there was more in her than mere insipid submission. She looked at her husband with a certain courage, though she was so pale, and felt so profoundly the displeasure which ...
— Sir Tom • Mrs. Oliphant
... of an Arab? May I, really? I always thought you were a man in a hundred; and now I know it! That's a bargain, then. Things have been deadly insipid the last two days. But I have something to ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver
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